Free Thought Project – by Rachel Blevins

In a ruling that will be used to a reinforce a disturbing pattern practiced by police officers across the United States, the Supreme Court has determined that officers who shoot non-threatening citizens are completely justified and cannot face consequences for their actions—as long as they express to the court that they feared for their safety.   Continue reading “Supreme Court Rules Cops Can Kill Non-Threatening People As Long As They Say They Were Scared”

USA Today

RENO, Nev. — Health departments in two states have opened investigations after a university student who contracted measles was determined to have been vaccinated.

It wasn’t immediately known whether the University of Nevada, Reno, student, whose name was not released, had both doses of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, generally given at age 12 to 15 months with a booster at 4 to 6 years old. The two shots are 97% effective in preventing measles; one dose is 93% effective, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.   Continue reading “College student with measles had been vaccinated, health officials say”

AL.com

South Carolina lawmakers have introduced a bill that would allow them to secede from the U.S. if the federal government attempts to confiscate legally purchased firearms.

Three Republican representatives introduced the bill Thursday. It would allow the state’s General Assembly to meet “to consider whether to secede from the U.S. based on the federal government’s unconstitutional violation of the Second Amendment…” if the “federal government confiscates legally purchased firearms in this state.”   Continue reading “South Carolina lawmakers introduce bill to secede from US if guns seized”

Leaf Science – December 13, 2013

GW Pharmaceuticals announced Wednesday that it has been issued a Notice of Allowance from the U.S. Patent Office for a patent application involving the use of THCand CBD, the two main chemicals in marijuana, for treating gliomas.

Once a patent application is deemed a genuine invention, the Patent Office sends a Notice of Allowance that outlines the fees involved with final approval.   Continue reading “Drug Maker Will Soon Hold Patent On THC, CBD As Cancer Cures”

Information Liberation – by Chris Menahan

On top of tracking all the websites you visit and sending it to Google’s servers, Chrome web browser is now scanning all your private files in the interest of “safety.”

From Vice:

The browser you likely use to read this article scans practically all files on your Windows computer. And you probably had no idea until you read this. Don’t worry, you’re not the only one.
Continue reading “Google Chrome Caught Scanning Files On People’s Computers”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants to track the vast networks of journalists, bloggers and other “media influencers” through a massive, searchable database that will allow them to monitor “any and all” trends in real time, according to a publicly posted job listing.

Apparently the NSA doesn’t share their toys with DHS…   Continue reading “DHS Creates Database To Track Journalists, Bloggers, “Media Influencers”, Calls Critics “Conspiracy Theorists””

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (AP) — Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt’s concern with his safety came at a steep cost to taxpayers as his swollen security detail blew through overtime budgets and at times diverted officers away from investigating environmental crimes.

Altogether, the agency spent millions of dollars for a 20-member full-time detail that is more than three times the size of his predecessor’s part-time security contingent.  Continue reading “AP sources: EPA chief spent millions on security and travel”

Reuters

The Texas National Guard has begun deploying troops to help secure the state’s southern border with Mexico as President Donald Trump has been unable to get the U.S. Congress or Mexico to fully fund his proposed wall along the border.

The deployment, announced on Friday by Texas officials, comes after Trump directed Defense Secretary James Mattis to request the use of National Guard personnel to help the Department of Homeland Security secure the border in four southwestern U.S. states, including Texas.   Continue reading “Texas sends 250 National Guard troops to Mexico border”

The Organic Prepper – by Karen Morris

Seven years ago almost to the day during a Good Friday church service, my cell phone rang.  I promptly turned the ringer off – It was the middle of the service. A few moments later, It rang again.  I turned the phone’s ringer off again, and this time I sat on it. Yeah, I know. You see, my phone made a loud noise when it was turned completely off, so I didn’t want to do that. Fortunately, the service was just about over.  So as soon as it was finished, I pulled my phone out and looked to see who had called. It was my mother. Yeah, not good turning the phone off on your mom! So I called her back only to hear her panicked voice, “Karen, are you okay?  Is everyone unhurt?”   Continue reading “The Aftermath: What It’s Really Like After Your Home Is Hit by a Tornado”

The Organic Prepper – by Daisy Luther and M.K. Matthews

By now, unless you have been living in a Wifi-free deadzone, you’ve heard about the hundreds of billions in tariffs that the United States and China are flinging at one another like ninja throwing stars. When you’re hearing numbers like “100 billion dollars” it may seem like this is in an entirely different universe than the one in which you exist.

Unfortunately, that’s incorrect.   Continue reading “The Tariff War Will Affect the Prices and Availability of THESE Items”

Freedom Outpost – by Suzanne Hamner

America, it’s time to talk about ex post facto laws.  Why has the time come to talk about such things and understand it?  States, municipalities, and Congress are moving toward passing laws and ordinances against gun ownership that could move into ex post facto laws.  For example;  in the town of Deerfield, Illinois, the Board of Trustees passed an ordinance that banned certain “assault-type” weapons, large magazines that hold over 10 rounds, and semi-automatic pistols capable of holding over 10 rounds, requiring residents to turn in those firearms to government or face a fine of $250 to $1,000 per day per gun.
Continue reading “It’s Time To Talk About Ex Post Facto Laws & Resistance To Tyranny”

Post and Courier

A South Carolina Republican congressman is not backing down from critics after he pulled out his own personal — and loaded — .38-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun during a meeting with constituents Friday.

U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman, R-Rock Hill, told The Post and Courier he pulled out the weapon and placed it on a table for several minutes in attempt to make a point that guns are only dangerous in the hands of criminals.   Continue reading “U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman pulls out loaded gun in constituent meeting to make point about safety”

Firearms Policy Coalition

SACRAMENTO, CA (April 6, 2018) — Firearms Policy Coalition today announced that it had acquired new “mock-up” language for California Assembly Bill 2382 (AB 2382), currently a bill authored by Asm. Mike Gipson (D – Carson) to expand the definition of “firearm” and “receiver,” that would enact a radical and far-reaching new regulatory scheme by treating non-firearm parts, components, and even some raw materials in a virtually-identical manner as Gavin Newsom’s Proposition 63 and Senator Kevin de Leon’s SB 1235 (2016) did with ammunition. FPC called the broad reach and implications of the disturbing amendments “staggering.”   Continue reading “Amendments to Calif. “Ghost Gun” Bill Would Enact “Staggering” New Firearms Parts Regulations”

AlterNet – by Domenica Ghanem

At a recent rally in New Hampshire, Donald Trump called for the death penalty for drug traffickers as part of a plan to combat the opioid epidemic in the United States. At a Pennsylvania rally a few weeks earlier, he called for the same.

Now his administration is taking steps toward making this proposal a reality. Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memo on March 21 asking prosecutors to pursue capital punishment for drug traffickers — a power he has thanks to legislation passed under President Bill Clinton.   Continue reading “If You Want to Kill Drug Dealers, Start With Big Pharma”

Engadget – by Rob LeFebvre

If you’ve read any sort of science fiction, it’s likely you’ve heard about subvocalization, the practice of silently saying words in your head. It’s common when we read (though it does slow you down), but it’s only recently begun to be used as a way to interact with our computers and mobile devices. To that end, MIT researchers have created a device you wear on your face that can measure neuromuscular signals that get triggered when you subvocalize.   Continue reading “MIT’s wearable device can ‘hear’ the words you say in your head”

The New Observer

There has been a 203 percent increase in the number of nonwhite invaders trying to smash their way into the United States over the Mexico border in the past year, new figures from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have revealed.

A statement from the DHS’s Press Secretary Tyler Q. Houlton said that the “crisis at our Southwest border is real. The number of illegal border crossings during the month of March shows an urgent need to address the ongoing situation at the border.   Continue reading “203% Increase in Invaders from Mexico to US from 2017 to 2018”